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G. W. ATKINS.

SHA1-"T BBARBR FOR' HARNESS. No. 304,592. Patented Sept. 2, 1884.

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GEORGE W. ATKINS, OF CLARION, PENNSYLVANIA', ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H. V.' CURLL AND H. J. KLAHR, OF SAME PLACE.

SHAFT-BEARER FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,592, dated September 2, 1884.

Application filed July 7, 18S4. (No model.)

view of the same removed from the harness.`

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the shaft-bearer.

My invention relates to that portion of the harness which supports the shaft, and has for its object to provide a ready means of attaching and detaching the shaft from the carrier without withdrawing its end from the carrierloop.

My invention consists in a slotted plate secured to the end of the Carrierstrap, in combination with a peculiarly-constructed springcatch, as is hereinafter described, and specilically pointed out in the claim.

To enable others to make and use "my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, Ais astrap for supporting the shaft, and its end is lshod with a metal plate, B, near the end of which is a circular opening, c, having two jogs or offsets, b b. At

rightangles to the line of the jogs or offsets the face of the plate B is depressed into a groove, as shown at d. At a point desirable for forming the bight of the strap is set a spring-fastening constructed as' follows: A plate inserted within the leather has rising from it and passing through the face of the strap a barrel, D, in which moves a longi- 4o tudinally-slidingpost, E, provided on its lower end with a head, t, and between said head and the end of said barrel is confined a coiled spring,

z'. The face ofthe post has a rectangular offset, o, which lies in aline with and registers with offset d in the plate B. Elongated thumbpiece T passes through circular opening ct and `jogs b, and, being turned, drops into groove d on plate B, and is held there so long as there is any strain within the loop.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The strap A, having the loose end shod with plate B, having opening a and offsets b, in com- 55 bination with inserted plate carrying barrel D, in which is a sliding post, E, provided with a broad flat thumb-piece and head t, and surrounded by spring z', all constructed, arranged, and operated as set forth.

G GEORGE WV. ATKINS.

Witnesses:

W. H. Ross, J. J. FRAZIER. 

